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- Title: Case Study of a Deep Slab Instability and Associated Dry Avalanches
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Torsten Geldsetzer, Chris Stethem
- Description: This study considers the predictive merit of weather and snowpack data for avalanches that released throughout the winter on a layer of faceted crysta...
- Object ID: issw-2000-101-108.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, faceted crystals, snow cover stability, snow cover structure, snow stratigraphy
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- Title: Forecasting Factors for Skier-Triggered Avalanches at a Helicopter Skiing Operation
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Alan S.T. Jones, Bruce Jamieson, Mike Wiegele
- Description: To forecast skier-triggered avalanches, stability, snowpack and meteorological variables, and records of previous avalanche activity are typically use...
- Object ID: issw-2000-184-191.pdf
- Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche triggering, skier triggering
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- Title: Field Observations of Skier-Triggered Avalanches
- Date: 2000
- Authors: J. Schweizer, J. B. Jamieson
- Description: Snowpack characteristics for skier-triggered avalanches are described in order to better understand skier triggering, to improve snow profile observat...
- Object ID: issw-2000-192-199.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, skier triggering, snow cover stability, physical properties
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- Title: Measurements of Human-Triggered Avalanches from the Swiss Alps
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Martina Lutschg
- Description: Ten years of avalanche incidents data from the Swiss Alps have been analyzed in order to find characteristics of human triggered avalanches. We were p...
- Object ID: issw-2000-200-207.pdf
- Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, avalan forecasting, skier triggering
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- Title: Lessons Learned: Cordova, Alaska's Residential Avalanche Accident, Jan. 26, 2000
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Doug Fesler, Jill Fredston
- Description: During late January and early February 2000, a cycle of long-running, slab avalanches caused two deaths, blocked major transportation corridors, and h...
- Object ID: issw-2000-486.pdf
- Keywords: fatalities, accident, slab avalanche, residential, hazard
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- Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
- Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
- Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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- Title: Effectiveness of Long Term Avalanche Defence Measures in Winter 1999 in Switzerland
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Stefan Margreth, Stephan Harvey, Christian Wilhelm
- Description: The exceptional avalanche period of February 1999 in the Swiss Alps with more than 1000 destructive avalanches was a valuable test for the long term a...
- Object ID: issw-2000-501-508.pdf
- Keywords: destructive avalanches, avalanche defence, supporting structures
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- Title: Occurrence Conditions of Two Catastrophic Avalanches at Chamonix, France
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Francois Rapin, Christophe Ancey
- Description: In February 1999, in Chamonix, France, a large avalanche destroyed 14 houses and killed 12 people in a village called Montroc and another flowed throu...
- Object ID: issw-2000-509-513.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, chamonix
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- Title: The Lavanchers Avalanche of February 23rd 1999, Aosta Valley, Italy
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Enrico Ceriani, Giorgio Del Monte, Valerio Segor, Fabrizio Savi
- Description: The purpose of the present contribution is to present and analyse in detail an avalanche event which occurred on February 23rd 1999 in the Western Ita...
- Object ID: issw-2000-519-526.pdf
- Keywords: catastrophic avalanches, winter 1999, italian alps, lavanchers avalanche, protective measures
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- Title: Overview of the 1999 Measurements at the SLF Test-Site Vallee De La Sionne
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt, Walter J. Ammann
- Description: Three large avalanches were artificially triggered on January 30th, February 10th and February 25th 1999, at the Vallee de la Sionne test site of the ...
- Object ID: issw-2000-527-534.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche dynamics, avalanche modelling, avalanche velocities, impact forces, avalanche experiments, avalanche forces
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- Title: Effect of Snow Temperatures on Skier Triggering of Dry Slab Avalanches
- Date: 1996
- Authors: D.M. McClung, Jurg Schweizer
- Description: Field observations and experience show that snow temperatures can have a strong influence on dry snow slab instability. Experience shows that there ar...
- Object ID: issw-1996-113-117.pdf
- Keywords: dry snow, snow temperature, snow strength, slab avalanche, avalanche formation, skier triggering
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- Title: Glide Avalanche Forecasting
- Date: 1996
- Authors: A. Wilson, G. Statham, R. Bilak, B. Allen
- Description: The forecasting of glide avalanches is particularly important when human life or structures are threatened. The best way to reduce the impact of such ...
- Object ID: issw-1996-200-202.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow gliding, avalanche release, snow pack
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- Title: Monitoring a Shear Frame Stability Index and Skier-Triggered Slab Avalanches Involving Persistent Snowpack Weaknesses
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Colin Johnston
- Description: Ski guides routinely decide whether to ski or avoid particular avalanche slopes. Similarly, avalanche forecasters for ski areas and highways decide wh...
- Object ID: issw-1994-014-021.pdf
- Keywords: forecasters, safety decisions, terrain, stability, skier triggering
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- Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
- Date: 1994
- Authors: R. M. LANG, B. R. LEO
- Description: A three-dimensional theory is derived to describe the temporal behavior of gravity currents of cohesionless granular media, in an attempt to model the...
- Object ID: issw-1994-360-361.pdf
- Keywords: runout, cohesionless granular media
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- Title: Observations of Snow Avalanches on Dynamic Internal Structures at Alta, Utah
- Date: 1994
- Authors: Osamu Abe, Tsutomu Nakamura, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Rand Decker, Thor Femenias, Daniel Howlett
- Description: Observations of snow avalanches on dynamic internal structures were carried out at Alta, Utah as a Japan/U.S. joint research project. A pylon to measu...
- Object ID: issw-1994-385-392.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release
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